CVE-2011-1159

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 1.1%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDOct 5

1st PoCJan 19

exploitation probability

1.1%top 38% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

acpid.c in acpid before 2.0.9 does not properly handle a situation in which a process has connected to acpid.socket but is not reading any data, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (daemon hang) via a crafted application that performs a connect system call but no read system calls.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/35240

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References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059880.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/060053.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688698 http://secunia.com/advisories/42947 http://secunia.com/advisories/44621 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/19/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/12 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/7 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45915